About

Raised in Washington, DC, Sherrhonda relocated to Georgia in 2000 and now lives East of Atlanta with her wife (Beckey) and the cutest miniature Yorkshire Terrier you’ve ever seen, Bishop. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her smart, talented, beautiful and amazing grandchildren Emi, KoKo and Princeton, traveling, creating blessing boxes for people needing encouragement and making a difference in her community with her time and talents.

During the day, Sherrhonda serves as the Vice President of Enterprise Risk Management and Legal Services for the American Cancer Society, the nation’s largest community-based voluntary health organization. In this role, she is responsible for the business of legal, contract administration, insurance risk management and governance services. Prior to joining the American Cancer Society, Sherrhonda spent 11 years with the Department of Justice, where she enjoyed upward mobility in various agencies such as the United States Marshall Service, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the United States Attorney’s Office and the Executive Office for United States Attorneys.

Sarah is a co-founder and Founding President of Impact100 Atlanta. She is a Corporate Restructuring Senior Associate at Alvarez & Marsal, where she enjoys providing financial consulting for distressed companies to help them overcome difficult times. Sarah is excited about investing in the future of Atlanta through Impact100. She is especially passionate about empowering women to make a collective impact on the Atlanta community.

Laurie first made Atlanta home almost 30 years ago, working with the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. She then turned her to focus to law and practiced as a corporate/M&A attorney at Troutman Sanders for several years before moving inhouse with the American Cancer Society. She spent almost 15 years as legal counsel to the Society at their global headquarters in Atlanta, focusing primarily on mission programs and grant-making. Laurie left her position as Assistant General Counsel in 2017 but continues to assist the Society and other local nonprofits with their legal needs.

It has been a longtime dream of Laurie’s to bring Impact100 to Atlanta after witnessing the transformative effect of the program in her hometown of Pensacola, where her mother was a founding member almost 20 years ago. She passionately believes Impact100 Atlanta will be game changing for nonprofits in the area and life changing for its members.

Laurie, her husband and their 3 teenagers live in Virginia Highland with their golden retriever, Hobbes.

Michelle Kale Gilfillan is a founding member of Impact100 Atlanta and is excited to serve as Treasurer. She has a BS from Penn State University in Business Logistics and International Business and an MBA from Wayne State University. Michelle served in the United States Army for 5 years as an Ordnance Captain and is a proud veteran with a large military family. After leaving the military, she worked for 10 years in operational roles with Schneider Logistics and Amazon before deciding to change career paths and start her own business as a Fitness Professional/Personal Trainer. She works out of her home studio in Decatur, Georgia. Michelle and her husband, Scott, share their home with their two rescue pups (fur-babies), Penny Freckles and Ellie Kale. She loves to travel, read, exercise and attend any live sporting event. Michelle is thrilled to be part of such an amazing group of women and looks forward to seeing the positive impact this organization will have on her community.

Emily is Senior Director of Development for Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research. In her role she is focused on internal operations of the organization as well as individual, institutional and foundation giving to further Rally’s mission to find better treatments and, ultimately, cures for childhood cancer. Emily is passionate about giving back to the community and providing the financial support that non-profits need to continue their critical work. Being a member of Impact100- Atlanta provides Emily the opportunity to give back to her community in a volunteer role as well as in her professional role.

Sarah is a Kentucky native who’s happy to have made her home in Atlanta for the last 10+ years. She works in innovation for Delta Air Lines, leading strategic initiatives to optimize operations and improve the customer experience. As a founding member of Impact100 Atlanta, she is passionate about connecting amazing women to each other and to their community.

Jill and her husband relocated to Atlanta in 2021 after raising their two daughters in Cincinnati. She retired after more than three decades of success as an executive in the corporate technology and academic arenas. Impact100 Atlanta provides her the perfect opportunity to pay forward as part of a passionate group of women collectively seeking to make a difference in the community.

MacKensie Brandt is a director with Coxe Curry & Associates. She brings a wealth of experience in developing strategic guidance for capital campaigns, annual fundraising efforts, development assessments, and feasibility studies for clients across a wide range of sectors, with a strong background in public-private partnerships. Recent engagements include the Atlanta BeltLine Partnership, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta Ronald McDonald House Charities, The Nature Conservancy, Oglethorpe University, The Study Hall, Trinity School, and the YMCA of Metro Atlanta. MacKensie also provides graphic design services for a variety of internal and external projects.

MacKensie joined Coxe Curry in 2014 after beginning her nonprofit career at the Frazer Center, where she gained first-hand experience planning and executing fundraising events, managing volunteers and annual fundraising efforts, maintaining a donor database, and creating communications and marketing materials. She is a member of the LEAD Atlanta Class of 2020, on the Board of the Association of Fundraising Professionals – Greater Atlanta Chapter, is chairing National Philanthropy Day 2022, and she also serves as president of the Whitefield Academy Alumni Board.

A native Atlantan, MacKensie is a graduate of the University of Georgia’s Honors College with degrees in psychology and international affairs. She currently resides in Kirkwood with her husband Andrew and their two young children.

Allison has spent over twenty years working in higher education and is passionate about helping students achieve their academic and professional dreams. After graduating with a BBA at Butler University and an MBA at American University, she never left the business school environment and is now working in graduate admissions at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. As a founding member of the Impact 100 Sarasota chapter, she has been awed by the impact woman working together can have in transforming a community and is very excited to help to launch the Atlanta chapter.

Kris is Associate Dean for Law Library, Information Services, Legal Technology, & Innovation and Faculty Director of the Legal Analytics & Innovation Initiative at Georgia State University College of Law. She has lived in Atlanta since 2013. Kris joined Impact100 Atlanta in 2023 and, as a member of the Education Grants Committee, saw the transformational power of the Impact100 model.

Megan is an experienced legal and human resources professional who currently serves as Senior Vice President for Human Resources at Georgia-Pacific. Since joining Impact100 Atlanta as a founding member, she has been involved with the grant application review process, first as a member of the Education Grant Focus Area Committee and now as its chair. Born in Washington, D.C., Megan has called Atlanta home for more than twenty years. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

Lauren Dike (she/her/hers) is the Director and Senior Consultant for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at Hummingbird Humanity, a humanized workplace consulting firm. She has been in the DEI space for a little over 3 years, with more than 13 years’ experience in finance and accounting. Her lived as experiences as often the ‘only’ in the room while in corporate America, along for her passion for equity (one of her actual Strengthsfinder!) allows her to lead various clients in building knowledge and skill sets to operationalize DEI. Lauren joined Impact100 because she believes their mission and vision is twofold: Impact100 empowers historically marginalized genders through leadership opportunities, networking, and support and uses their magic to provide transformational opportunities to organizations and people that otherwise may not have access.

Dr. Alpa V. Patel earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of Florida, her Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, and her Doctoral degree in Preventive Medicine with a concentration in Epidemiology from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. She has been with the American Cancer Society for 25 years and is the Senior Vice President of Population Science at the American Cancer Society where she oversees a team of approximately 50 research and study operations staff. She serves as the principal investigator of the Cancer Prevention Studies (CPS) II and 3 that are long-term, large-scale, epidemiologic cohort studies established by the American Cancer Society. Combined, these two cohorts include over 1.5 million participants with a variety of over 400,000 biologic samples (such as blood, buccal cells, saliva, stool, and tumor tissue). Using these studies and their research expertise in epidemiology and behavioral science, Dr. Patel and her team are focused on better understanding cancer risk as well as improving outcomes and quality of life after a cancer diagnosis.

Dr. Patel is a recognized leader as a cancer epidemiologist. She serves on the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Counselors along with several other national and international scientific advisory committees, and is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. She has published approximately 250 scientific articles and book chapters, and her research has contributed significantly to national and international cancer prevention guidelines, such as the US Physical Activity Guidelines for Health and the American Cancer Society’s Nutrition and Physical Activity Guidelines for both cancer prevention and cancer survivorship.

Jennifer Tardelli is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in women’s issues with over twenty years of experience. She is a sole practitioner and has operated a boutique private practice since 2005. Jennifer is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Georgia, holds a Masters in Counseling Psychology and is a National Certified Counselor. Jennifer lives in Atlanta with her husband and three children. She enjoys playing piano, practicing yoga and attending her book club.

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Lisa grew up in Savannah and decided to make Atlanta home after graduating from the University of Georgia School of Law. She practiced as a labor and employment attorney at Jackson Lewis and Troutman Sanders for several years before joining a women-owned business focusing on legal recruiting in Atlanta. Lisa is passionate about helping attorneys find satisfying and sophisticated legal work while enabling them to work flexibly. Today, Lisa serves as Executive Director of Consilio, a leading legal solutions and recruiting company, where she leads client development efforts and works with a large number of Fortune 500 legal departments, publicly and privately held companies, and law firms to provide highly qualified attorneys, individually or in managed teams, on an as-needed basis across the legal enterprise.

During the pandemic, Lisa was profoundly affected by the number of children experiencing mental health issues and wanted to more for struggling families and children in her community. She is delighted to join the board and accelerate the impact she could achieve individually on the funding and provision of these services through her affiliation with Impact 100.

Lisa, her husband and their 2 teenagers, Charlotte and Grant, live in Buckhead with their delightful and spoiled rotten Cavapoo, Buck.

Meg is Vice President of Commercial Transformation at Inspire Brands, happily eating and drinking through their portfolio of brands, while also responsible for integration, strategy and ways of working within the organization. She has been an Atlanta resident for five years, and is excited to be part of Impact100 to help drive meaningfully, transformational impact in the community with other ATL women.

Calandra is an experienced Finance professional and currently serves as the Vice President Internal Audit Services at American Cancer Society. She and her team evaluate the American Cancer Society’s systems of internal controls including operational efficiency and effectiveness considering the organization’s risks, goals, policies, and processes. Prior to joining ACS, she served in financial roles within the Coca-Cola Company and Ernst & Young. She holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Florida A&M University and is a Certified Internal Auditor.

Tammi joined Impact100 Atlanta in February of 2023 and is now serving as Strategic Communications Chair.

She is currently Director of Brand Activation at KPMG and in this role leads Special Projects for the team, which includes overseeing marketing, communication, and innovation for some of firm's most valuable assets and clients. She has held various leadership positions inside the firm for more than ten years, most recently having served in an 18-month leadership rotation advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for KPMG Advisory, where she helped deliver new programs and innovative initiatives to help achieve KPMG's bold DEI aspirations.

Tammi stays very connected to people and issues inside the Jewish community in Atlanta and is especially close with her Momentum Trip 15 sisters who all experienced Israel together as a cohort and continue to stay involved and connected with each other.

Tammi's primary goal is to promote the Impact100 Atlanta mission and grow membership with a diverse group of amazing women throughout Atlanta and make it easy for them to participate. Members can choose to contribute just their treasure, or also give their time and talents, whatever works best for them. She’s passionate about the power of women in philanthropy – a group that has been traditionally underrepresented – and giving them the ability to impact Atlanta’s underserved communities directly and easily by supporting equitable opportunities and driving necessary changes.

She graduated from The University of Florida and received her Master's in Integrated Marketing Communications from Northwestern University.

Tammi and her husband live in Marietta, Georgia. They spend a great deal of time visiting their kids in college - their "firstie" son who will be graduating West Point with Honors in May 2024 and start his service in the Army, their daughter who is a freshman at Georgia Tech. They have a high school junior at Lassiter High School who is planning on attending the United States Coast Guard Academy and is a key player on the Rebels Rugby Team.

Vanessa is a native Atlantan, only leaving to attend The College of Charleston in South Carolina. As a founding member, she is grateful to have played a part in growing Impact100 Atlanta in her hometown.

After working as an analyst in a corporate capacity and owning her own retail business, she focused on her favorite role as a mom. While raising her two children, she took on multiple volunteer roles in education and fundraising. Impact100 Atlanta gives her the opportunity to continue those roles while learning even more about nonprofits. She is excited and hopeful about the transformational impact women can have on so many lives in our community.

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Consuela Dee (Connie) Culbreath, MBA PA is an energetic and passionate Atlanta native, born, raised, and spiritually nurtured in the Kirkwood/Edgewood community. She has also proudly served on the Board of Trustees of Antioch East Baptist Church (Atlanta, GA) since 2015.

Dedicating over 22 years of her career to the Legal Services team of the American Cancer Society, Connie actively supports non-profit operations and organization management. With the nonprofit, she served several years as Strategic Director of Enterprise Governance and is currently positioned as Director of Legal Technology and Insights where she is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of legal technology programs across the enterprise.

Connie received her Bachelor of Mathematics degree and MBA Public Administration locally, as well. Connie is a "professional aunt" to 14 nieces and nephews, of whom she adores dearly, and helps to mold and shape into who they are becoming. In her free time, Connie enjoys art, good music, and great company.